Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 87

She stood before him astonished, offended, proud, with contempt in her face, an expression of disgust, as if she had suddenly touched a cold unclean reptile.

Who acts: marble · What happens: stand, touch · To what, where: cold unclean reptile

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marble), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	obl
5	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 offended	punct
7	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 astonished	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 proud	punct
9	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 astonished	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 contempt	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 contempt	case
12	contempt	contempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 face	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 face	nmod:poss
15	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 contempt	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 expression	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 expression	det
18	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 face	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 disgust	case
20	disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 expression	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 touched	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 touched	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 touched	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 touched	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 touched	aux
26	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	27 touched	advmod
27	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 stood	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 reptile	det
29	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 reptile	amod
30	unclean	unclean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 reptile	amod
31	reptile	reptile	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 touched	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	marble				before lava	with contempt in marble's face; astonished property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
2	touch a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	marble	a cold unclean reptile				suddenly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reptile=Co-Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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